Funny, I see “exit” as. more or less the opposite of the thing you are arguing against. Land (and Moldbug) refer to this book by Hirschman, where “exit” is contrasted with “voice”—the other way to counter institutional/organisational decay. In such model, exit is individual and aims to carve a space for a different way of doing things, while voice is collective, and aims to steer the system towards change.
Balaji’s network state, cryptocurrency, etc are all examples. Many can run parallel to existing institutions, working along different dimensions, and testing configurations which might one day end up being more effective than the legacy institutions themselves.
So, something like “quiet quitting”? You nominally stay a citizen of the country, but you mostly ignore its currency, its healthcare system, its education, etc., and instead you pay using cryptocurrency, etc.? The resistance to the Cathedral is that you stop reading the newspapers and drop out of college? And the idea is that if enough people do that, an alternative system will develop, where the employers will prefer to give good jobs to people without university education?
I am in favor of doing small things on your own. Write Linux code, learn math on Khan Academy, etc. But if you are dissatisfied with how the government works, I don’t think this will help. The government will keep doing its own things, and it will keep expecting you to pay taxes and obey the laws.
Well, no—not necessarily. And with all the epistemic charity in the world, I am starting to suspect you might benefit from actually reading the review at this point, just to have more of an idea of what we’re talking about.
Funny, I see “exit” as. more or less the opposite of the thing you are arguing against. Land (and Moldbug) refer to this book by Hirschman, where “exit” is contrasted with “voice”—the other way to counter institutional/organisational decay. In such model, exit is individual and aims to carve a space for a different way of doing things, while voice is collective, and aims to steer the system towards change.
Balaji’s network state, cryptocurrency, etc are all examples. Many can run parallel to existing institutions, working along different dimensions, and testing configurations which might one day end up being more effective than the legacy institutions themselves.
So, something like “quiet quitting”? You nominally stay a citizen of the country, but you mostly ignore its currency, its healthcare system, its education, etc., and instead you pay using cryptocurrency, etc.? The resistance to the Cathedral is that you stop reading the newspapers and drop out of college? And the idea is that if enough people do that, an alternative system will develop, where the employers will prefer to give good jobs to people without university education?
I am in favor of doing small things on your own. Write Linux code, learn math on Khan Academy, etc. But if you are dissatisfied with how the government works, I don’t think this will help. The government will keep doing its own things, and it will keep expecting you to pay taxes and obey the laws.
Well, no—not necessarily. And with all the epistemic charity in the world, I am starting to suspect you might benefit from actually reading the review at this point, just to have more of an idea of what we’re talking about.